Student Pilot gets into Ground Resonance when Picking Up to Hover during First Solo Flight
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2018
- Ground Resonance event starts at 0:45
Schweizer 300CBi/Sikorsky S300 N2026Y (Bristow 20)
Bristow Academy New Iberia, Louisiana USA
(Now South Louisiana Community College)
Lost video re-discovered from my first solo flight. My instructor had just walked away going over everything and giving me one last bit of advice, "Don't become a youtube video." as he pointed over to my father filming the event. All needles were in the green and I started to pickup to a hover when as soon as I got light on the skids I slid over about a foot which triggered the ground resonance. I had never before experienced ground resonance, but immediately remembered the famous "MacGyver" video ( • Helicopter Ground Reso... ) shown to me in ground school where the Gazelle helicopter quickly picked up to eliminate ground resonance. I acted swiftly and accordingly to prevent a potential unfavorable situation, then looked over to my instructor and chief instructor who were both wide-eyed and each giving me two thumbs up. Rather than set her back down, I gathered my nerves in a steady hover, checked my surroundings, and then pressed-on to complete my first solo flight experience without further incident.
He fixed this problem right away without hesitation. Excellent recognition and recovery technique. Pretty smooth control and handling overall. It is obvious that the flight training this pilot received was done to a very high standard. It all goes back to one of the laws of learning that states simply that what one learns first will be what one does when a task arises.
It is the founding premise that if something is taught correctly from the beginning, the student will, in most cases, learn correct procedural patterns of behavior. As a helicopter flight instructor for 28 years and still going, the single thing that I have observed is that it is far easier to teach a student correctly from the outset, rather than spend a great deal of time, and, ultimately, their hard earned money, trying to break them of bad habits and then teach them the right way to do things.
This is a very good example of excellent training that resulted from excellent communication and transfer of learning to the student by the flight instructor. With few exceptions, it only gets better with a bit of time and experience.
Congratulations to the student for on a very nice first solo! Well done!
I guess all the thumbs down are people who don’t know what ground resonance is. The student recognized it instantly and pulled the collective to fix it. I’m not a pilot but I’ve seen these things fall apart from severe ground resonance.
Excellent recovery! He will be a fine pilot💪🏻👍🏻
Not being a helicopter pilot, I had to look up the term, because I didn't notice anything odd at first. Once I had the term defined for me, I was able to see it in the video. I found it quite interesting.
Not the most spectacular example of ground resonance on tube, which is an entirely good thing! Thank you sir.
He also did a pretty decent hover and low flying, let´s not forget that.
Great reaction time, you saved the helicopter from self destruction .
Wow, good save! That pilot was seconds away from disaster when he suddenly lifted up and prevented continued ground resonance! Whew!
He did exactly the right thing to counter it: lift off! Well done.
Nice job correcting that quickly and moving on to complete your first solo. Congratulations!🎊🎉
You had good training, it didn’t let you down.
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Nice job. I remember the best piece of instruction I ever got... “No matter what’s happening around you fly the plane”. The instructor continued to tell me of pilots who failed to latch the oil check door on the cowl of a 172 only to have it pop open during takeoff then crash trying to get back on the ground to close it.
That advice saved my bacon my first licensed flight with my wife on board. I had never used the auto pilot in the schools plane, and on this particular flight I was using the auto pilot on our way back to our home FOB. Went through my checklist started on my downwind leg and when I turned for crosswind, the plane started fighting me. Wasn’t sure what was going on concentrated on the basics and turn final with the plane again continuing to fight me not altitude mind you only direction. Once landed and turned off of the runway I let go of the wheel only for it to rotate itself then realized I had failed to turn off the auto pilot. Touch of the auto cancel the loud piercing horn in my ear and the plane quit fighting me. Turns out because the auto pilot had been installed after the owner took delivery of the aircraft, there was no item for the auto pilot on the pre-landing checklist.
Still my fault as PIC, but truly in my mind not knowing at that very moment what was going on the instructors voice popped in my head “no matter what’s going on fly the plane”. He truly did his job!
Good job recognizing! Hard to believe its his 1st solo.
Good for you and congratulations on your first solo!
Very good recovery from what could have been the death of a helicopter. Also, i must add that the student pilot maintained very good control of hover height during the hover taxi.
The only thing I question in this video is the SOP of backing up to get to the practice area. Startup procedures take anywhere from 3-5 minutes - a lot can happen behind the aircraft in that time, to act as an impediment. It's possible the pilot had ground crew spotting his 'reverse gear operation', which would make it considerably safer.
We used a common frequency to report all movement within the taxi area and used extreme caution. It's always worked out. We would transition to local controlling tower frequency once we were ready to enter the takeoff/landing run area. Tower would let us know if we were cleared or if we were expecting approaching aircraft. The airport fence and tower are only maybe 300 yards away. Class D airspace.
Wow awesome first solo! You’re a natural!
Very quick thinking.
He did what was exactly right when he noticed the start of skid bouncing. He pulled up on the collective and got the ship off the deck. Ground resonance can also happen on approach by hitting the low skid hard, then bouncing to the opposite skid, then back which gets worse and repeats unless you yank the bird off the ground and try a new approach. In the 300s and 500s I flew for 3500 hours, both settled with the left skid first, we we had to be aware of any bouncing.
Great Video and awesome you published it! Very quick on the pick-up once it happened nice job! I hope all helo pilots watch this.
You picked up on it and responded amazingly quickly for a student pilot. There's plenty of thousand +hour Veteran pilots that would have taken twice the time to respond and lift up. Well done.
You won't forget how that feels in a hurry. Congrats on the solo, a very big milestone.
You were very lucky. Great job in a quick thinking recovery!
He's doing a great job, I've flown rc helis for years and was given the stick in a Robinson R 22 once, within seconds we were pitched over heading for the ground, my friend the pilot grabbed it back quickly, very tricky machines to control.
Wow. Kudos on you for promptly applying corrective action and successfully soloing. I've got 1500 fixed wing hours but have always wanted to try helicopters. I've even toyed with the idea of a gyro copter. Good luck with your flying.
That may have been the ideal time to experience and correct ground resonance. The video is a very nice demonstration.
Wow, I am impressed. He IMMEDIATELY recognized and did an amazing job getting it under control. So easily could have gone wrong. The one’s that gave this a thumbs down, clearly have no clue about flying!
... GREAT REACTION TIME & INSTINCT TO ACT IMMEDIATELY ... YOU KNEW JUST WHAT TO DO ...
great quick reactions, well done!
beautiful recovery !!!
well done ! handled like a pro ! safe flying mate!
As the head unloads and then again loads without the weight of the heli under it, they will start to violently vibrate. He saved it quickly by just pulling into a hover, if he hesitated any longer, it would have shook itself to death. Scary.
Good recovery!!
great job re-adjusting man!
Considering this was a first solo flight the fine control and balance was exceptional. Flying a helicopter looks to be a very difficult skill to acquire and seems more difficult than flying a light aircraft. My father flew Wellingtons in WWII and he wouldn't go in any helicopter, said he hated the thought of his life depending on the integrity of just one ball-race! This surprised me considering he flew 32 bombing missions and survived.
Great recovery, seen several videos that didn't go so well.
Excellent film footage and sound.
and he kept his calm and got out off it great!
Wow! Handled very well!
I don't know anything about helicopters, but this looks like a wonderful flight with excellent stability.
Reminds me of when I was learning to hover an R/C model helicopter. When transitioning from ground effect into hover shit can happen in a millisecond.
You did great deciding to keep it in the air!
Would love to be able to afford to learn to fly one.....love these brilliant man made inventions! Thanks for posting best of luck to all students. 👏👏👏👍🏴😉
Awesome flying , great control
Looks minor from the outside, but after I watched it a few times, I could see where that could turn bad very quickly. Good save.
Picked it up immediately as soon as he recognized it. Good job.
At least he had the presence of mind to get it in the air once the GR started.
Great save bruh!
Excellent response when lift off
Awesome job! Exactly as you’re supposed to do.
Good detection and prompt recovery.
Nicely done!
I was always worried about that when checking out in the Schweizer but never saw any symptoms. I assumed the shock absorbers have a resonant frequency which can be discovered the hard way!
Nice bit of flying. Good job my son, good job.
Saved that just in time, well done
It was a nice pick up for a first solo flight!
good recovery
Nicely done ✅
Well done!
That's a cool story in the description! I've never flown in a helicopter, but occasionally take a fixed wing lesson.
Best flight was a half hour flying a WACO biplane.
Thanks. I've done a few flights in a Stearman and it's some of the most fun I've ever had. Old bi wings are a blast!
Great save nice work!
My man.. givin you a thumbs up from Florida.. Good job. I've seen ground resonance completely destroy a Schweizer.. and I mean compleeeetely destroy it. It was being piloted by an ex military chopper pilot too..
Probably first time he every felt that little bird fly alone...haha. We all remember that first pitch pull.....
good save and a good lesson as well as well trained
Great job!
Nice save buddy.
Good save!
My first solo flight, the instructor landed it and then said he was going to get a cup of coffee, and I should finish the lesson myself, I flew around while he was sitting next to the runway drinking his coffee, then when I came in for a landing I missed the spot by about 30 feet. The instructor came up to me, laughing, and said " The wind shifted while you were goes, didn't it "
Good going! It looks like you were getting close to those trees though.
Great video.
In my book, BRAVO stud!
Nice recovery
I would dearly love to own one of those!
Very nice!
Well done.
Good job ! 👍
Well handled.
He did good; picking up as quickly as he did. I Love the ‘300!
Doing a fine job!
Beautiful
Well done
Wow, got squirly there as soon as the skids left the ground. Good job on getting the helicopter to come down, and proceed straight and level. I dont know much about actual helicopter. I tried to fly an rc helicopter on simulator. Damn that is hard.
He did everything perfect in this video. He was "squirlly" because he had to get the skids off the ground that instant, not half a second more, otherwise we would be watching a video of a helicopter litterally shake itself to pieces.
that looks like a super fun little helicopter.
You did make it to UA-cam. Luckily for the right reason
you rocked it. ill call you 'Chickenhawk'
That guy was quick and did exactly the right thing.
NICE JOB!!!
Looks like you did a pretty good job buddy... I didn’t see the landing but, nice job
My hero
Good reaction.
He did good tho, grabbed some collective to get off the ground.
This is exactly why I love the UH-1N and 212/412. That will never happen on a two bladed bird.
Have you ever heard of things like low rotor inertia or mast bumping? LOL
Look like ballet to me. Graceful air art.
Well done. I can't fly one, but Wikipedia says you did it right.
Good save
Nice looking helicopter
Nice save
excellent !
Looks like he did the right thing and pulled clear of the ground.
That could have ended... poorly. Good reflexes!
He recovered fast ..dam
I'm sure that was exciting, but I would have never noticed if you had not told me when and where to look. Perspective I guess.